French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests.Terra Daily
Despite the downturn in the timber market, private forest logging is still responsible for more than 120,000 jobs in Oregon, according to a study from a national timber group.The Oregonian
A Smoky Mountain forest's woodland herb population has shown that climate may play a role in how forest understories recover from logging, according to Purdue University research.ScienceDaily
On the west side of the Cascade Range in southern Oregon, U.S. Forest Service researchers on the Umpqua National Forest are trying to come up with a solution to two seemingly disparate environmental challenges: forest health and climate change.Forest Magazine
The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.ScienceDaily
Wisconsin's quaking aspens are growing much faster than in the past, and scientists think that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere provide the explanation.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Given agriculture's unique role as both an emitter and mitigator of climate change, and its enormous contribution to land use patterns around the world, agriculture must be part of any global response to climate change.
